Gentlemen at my preparatory school often wore dungarees in business settings. It was not a conspicuous event.

Hey! I can comment now!

Second!!

You have to pay $5 to wear jeans to work? I only don't wear jeans on Monday out of some strange reverse casual friday duty I feel for the ridiculous amount of money that I make.

Not only do we get more comfortable weather out in the bay area, but we get to be comfortable at work to boot!

Meh. My old firm used to do this monthly, and weekly during summer recruiting.

When I worked for the govm't every day was jeans day!

Damn, I was the douchebag who last year on denim day worse a Canadian tuxedo even though I had a very important meeting with clients from outside the firm. Wish they would've put that asterick in there last year.

I'm ecstatic about it!

is a canadian tuxedo the same thing as a texas tuxedo?

D&L to 190K!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kick CWT while they're down. They deserve it.

The glory is yours for the taking!

D&L to 190K!!!!!!!!!!!!!
D&L to 190K!!!!!!!!!!!!!
D&L to 190K!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is this news?

I wear jeans and a golf shirt to work everyday here in Texas.

Cue the "yeah, but Texas sucks comments." I wish more people thought that, there are too damn many of you yanks and californians here in Austin driving up real estate prices as it is.

wow slow news day

Thelen already does this.

More importantly than the jeans --- Will there be flip cup tournament again this yr?

MWE does this occassionally. $5 to wear the jeans, no happy hour or iPod Touch though.

tons of firms do this already...Got 5 on it? Hardly seems like a donation.

Weil has already had several casual days tied to charitable giving this year. There was one for Big Brother/Big Sister and one for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (Donors received little pink ribbon pins too).

Personally, I loved the opportunity to wear jeans and was happy to make donations to worthy causes.

Are casual days tied to giving really so unusual as to warrant reporting?

Canadian tuxedo=denim jeans, denim jacket, and denim shirt.

I remember interviewing with firms when I was a 2L. Lots of Friday interviews, lots of jeans, and lots of pink ribbons. I never put two and two together and thought they were just kind people who didn't bother to dress formally to interview people. I thought it was rude. I'm dense.

Also more important than jeans: the partners are away! The partners are away!

I too would like to see some conference room flip cup action.

5:49: While $5 is a small donation compared to the $160,000+ that the associates make, it may not be as trivial to the staff.

lame

King & Spalding in Atlanta has been doing the $5 Denim Day charitable thing for years.

Lat's Asian ass looks hot in his tight Versace jeans. Gay love forever!

Sidley does this annually in the fall as well.

Sidley New York has a denim day one a year in the fall as well.

Lat... You should merged the Dewey & LeBoeuf Archives with the Dewey Archives and the LeBoeuf Archives.

This is extraordinarily gay. In the Bay Area our firms let us wear jeans EVERY Friday (at least). And -- get this -- it's FREE!

I wear jeans to work every day - usually the same pair.

every firm i know does this. shitty topic.

This campaign is teh ghey for the following reasons:

1. Lots of firms around the nation do this.

2. The charity isn't named. For all we know, Do We Eat The Beef could be donating to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (go Google it).

3. Reminding us that we shouldn't be wearing "denim" when seeing clients is schoolmarmish.

4. Cadwalader is laying off, MoFo is rumored to be doing so, and Merrill, Morgan, and Goldman all say we're in a recession; a "Denim Day" seems pretty trite in light of this news.

Sonnenschein in NY has been doing Jeans Day on Fridays for months now.

Quit stealing our ideas, D&L!

8:44:

As to your second point, the rumors are that the proceeds will go toward feeding the families of laid-off Cadwalader associates.

(Too soon?)

I can't afford the $5 until my bonus comes in February. I hope the extra two months of interest covers some of the harassment counseling/defense expenses.

I can't be the only person who thinks this is straight up retarded. I don't want to wear jeans to work. News flash: jeans really aren't that comfortable. And I really don't want to know more about whatever fashion sense my colleagues may or may not have. The best part- and by best, I mean "most typical of a law firm"- of this shark-jumping effort at...cultural relevance? comes from a follow-up memo sent earlier today. "Denim (i.e., jeans) should be clean and neat; no holes, rips, droopy, tight or cut off jeans. Please keep in mind that clients, vendors and other external service providers will still be in the firm's offices and all D&L employees should strive to make a positive impression in their dress attire and general appearance. With the exception of wearing denim jeans, please follow the firm's general business casual dress attire guidelines (e.g., no t-shirts, sneakers, etc.)"

Thanks for clearing that up for us. Thanks.

I work at Legal Aid, wear jeans to work every day, and get to go home at 6:00. Beat that, bitches.

9:23: spill the beans

Legal Aid, how's this:

I used a small part of my year end bonus to finish off my private law school debt (the public is at 2.5%, and I'm planning on keeping it as long as possible).

So are the pictured jeans acceptable? They look a little frayed. That might appeal to the prurient interests of some partners/counsel.

someone at dewey: arrange to have tables for flip cup!

I can't get over how unbelievably gay this is. Is this common at NY offices? Making people pay money to wear jeans, and this being seen as a rare opportunity? At my SF Biglaw office, I wear jeans, a hoody, and sneakers every Friday, and sometimes other days if we've got a big filing or I'm just generally feeling overworked. I don't pay $5 to do so either.

Wearing jeans to work is very unprofessional.

what's this "flip cup" stuff? seriously

The jackass complaining about jeans proves JT's theory that douchey law students/lawyers will complain about anything.

Fell ass backwards into a million dollars? It's not two. Usual million dollar TTT bullshit

Only pirates need to pay to wear jeans. Ninjas wear whatever they want, because they're invisible.

P.S. Chuck Norris never starred in a single action movie; they were all documentaries.

8:39: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_cup

11:32, it's unfortunately very common: my firm does the same thing every couple of months. We even have "casual Friday" every week under the explicit understanding that jeans are still forbidden: casual evidently means a polo shirt with slacks. I refuse to take part or give them my $5 on principle; if they just passed around a hat and didn't tie it to "jeans day" I'd be much more generous.

And news flash: nice, dark-wash jeans and a sweater look at heck of a lot better than chinos and a polo shirt. This isn't a dot.com.

chinos and polo shirt = Best Buy uniform

There is a difference between cotton chinos and "khaki" or grey slacks. The first is not acceptable for the office, the latter is not.

9:37-what is your problem? Giving guidelines (probably directed more to support staff) is not a big deal. F*cking baby.

I work at said firm, and let me say, I would give a year's worth of my salary to NOT have denim day. My boss seriously showed up today in his denim jacket! And I'm talking about those old school Guess ones. Siiiiiicccccccck! I mean, I'm all for looking hot as shit, esp. when its me in my new Rock & Republics, but I know not everyone can have an ass like mine. I wish work was like a club, where we had bouncers to keep all the fuglies out! It would make the work day so much easier to get through.

No we can't afford to make the $5 donation because we haven't been paid either the special or the market bonus, nor will we be paid them until some unspecified date (read last day of) February.

Additionally, usually we receive an individually addressed letter confirming that we have met our hours and will be paid a bonus of X and that has not yet happened.

This has left room for rumors that although D&L announced that they will match market and special bonuses, the firm may actually let some folks go (with or without bonuses, who knows).

Until we get those letters confirming our bonus awards, I'm not getting teary eyed over denim day and a happy hour (to which I wasn't even invited btw).

Also, I'd like to say, now that I've finally seen the reception invitation here on ATL, that I don't know what the hell ARC means or where Multipurpose 1301 is. Maybe the happy hour is only for our OTHER DC office. That's hot.

Concerned: lighten up. It's D&L Denim Day! Sheesh

Concerned: I'm calling bullshit on that layoff rumor. We were told that it was going to take until February due to integration issues. There has been no reason to believe otherwise. Chill out.

If you don't like to wear Jeans -- stop using that as an excuse not to give. I can assure you the charity will take your money no matter what the f*** you wear to work. And for the people bragging that they don't have to give $5 to wear jeans -- you're a bunch of cheap bastards who should give to charity what you're saving by wearing hoodies instead of business casual.

I'm not quite as fired up as 2:01, but I don't really understand the need to protest jeans day. My firm has $5 jeans days on a regular basis. If I feel like wearing jeans, I pay $5. If I don't or I forget about it, I don't. The $15 or so that this costs me in a year does not factor into my other charitable giving decisions.

I agree with the person above who noted that apparently law students and lawyers will complain about anything. As for the person who thought it was rude for people not to be dressed up when you showed up for your interview, you sound kind of like Fraternity Lothario, except that I assume his posts are intended to poke fun at uptight elitist nerds.

11:29 - Are you at a non-NY D&L office? There are absolutely no rumors of any layoffs in NY. D&L is no CWT!

Nixon Peabody has "Green jeans" Fridays - people who commute using environemtnally friendly methods (subway, walking, biking, carpooling, etc.) can wear jeans on Fridays (under the assumption that they're 'professional-looking'.

Legacy LeBoeuf always paid the bonus late, so I don't think we can blame the February schedule on "integration". If a few people quit or are fired in January and February, it's some savings to add to the Executive Director's "firm is a business" list of successes.

2:51, it sounds like everyone's a winner under that system!!

I'm on to y'all: Y'all been running D&L stories because you wanna catch the Raw Dawg! But I got news for you -- you don't catch the Raw Dawg. The Raw Dawg gonna catch you! AWOO! RAWF! Right now I'm sunnin' my dawg bawls, raw, straight up chillin'.

PS: You left out the best part: Free pizza party today, fools. Don't say I never did nothin for ya.

Weil Boston does this every Friday. Where's the love??